> Van: Lyle Kopnicky > I'm wondering if the GnuWin32 version of tar will preserve symbolic links > across platforms. > I realize there are some issues, such as the fact that NTFS symbolic links > are absolute, but > Posix ones can be relative. And that you can't have more than 31 > > symbolic links in the same > path in NTFS. And that you have to have special permission to create > symbolic links in Windows. > But does GnuWin32 tar make an effort to preserve symbolic links?
GNU tar and BSD tar do not know about NTFS symbolic links. So it is not possible to preserve them as symbolic links across operating systems. Even when tarring and untarring on MS-Windows, their behavior depends on how the operating system presents these files to them through the C-runtime (msvcrt.dll). I think, but I'm not sure, that they are simply stored as separate files, which perhaps are, or are not, represented as symbolic links again on untarring on MS-Windows. An experiment would probably give more insight. Kees Zeelenberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
